Re: [Libguestfs] appliance VM won't start, can't find /init, but /init is in the image.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:19:56AM -0700, David Konerding wrote:
Are you sure this should work? I see that libc6 makes it into
packagelist,
and the febootstrap invocation includes libc6, but it never downloads libc6.
I did a few verification steps:
1) aptitude download libc6 works
2) extracting the deb works
so it seems like there is some step between listing a package in
packagelist, and febootstrap actually invoking the aptitutde download
command for the package. I've skimmed the febootstrap code, it doesn't seem
like it would actively filter anything not in the exclude list (which I
verified doesn't list libc6).
Actually you're right, this isn't direct.
It will pass libc6 as an argument to apt-cache depends [...], which
then presumably is ignoring it or not printing it in the output for
whatever reason.
There's not an especially easy way to do this without modifying
febootstrap sources:
http://git.annexia.org/?p=febootstrap.git;a=blob;f=febootstrap_debian.ml;...
Then recompiling febootstrap and adding /path/to/febootstrap and
/path/to/febootstrap/helper to $PATH.
Rich.
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